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How Good Intentions Helped Pave Trump's Road to Iran
Humanitarians proposed a loophole in international law. Decades later, Trump is jumping through it.
If Iran "violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue," President Trump wrote on Truth Social in January as protesters flooded the streets of Iran in the largest anti-government demonstrations in the country's history.